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NEXThouse

UL Lafayette architecture students and faculty collaborated to design an energy-efficient home affordable to low-income families.

The design and construction of this home, called the NEXThouse, provided an opportunity for architecture students to experience freedom in design while simultaneously exposing them to budget restrictions and market concerns.

Archimedes' Roost

Researchers in UL Lafayette's Center for Innovative Learning and Assessment Technologies are creating educational games for children.

Archimedes' Roost is a mobile app that teaches math concepts. Its users (kindergartners) visit a virtual tree house where a bird named Archimedes encourages them to play games to practice addition and subtraction.

Little Libraries

UL Lafayette architecture students were challenged to design and build tiny libraries: big enough to hold a dozen or so books. About 40 of these little libraries will be placed in Lafayette neighborhoods to encourage interaction among residents and to foster a love of reading.

Students' unique mini-library designs were displayed on campus and many are now displayed outside businesses and homes across Acadiana.

BeauSoleil Home

UL Lafayette students designed and built the Louisiana BeauSoleil Solar Home, a sustainable house that includes elements of traditional Cajun and Creole architecture. It won first place in Market Viability and earned the People’s Choice Award in the Solar Decathlon held by the U.S. Department of Energy

Angry Baby

Two UL Lafayette computer science students majoring in computer science credit their Computer Science 359 class as giving them much of the knowledge and inspiration needed to launch their company, Motion Punch Studios.

Their smartphone app called “Angry Baby” marks the company’s first foray into the iPhone and Android gaming market. “Angry Baby” revolves around a strong-willed toddler who dreams aliens have stolen his toys. The toddler, named Tobu, heads into outer space to reclaim them.

CajunCodeFest

This coding marathon brings together undergraduate and graduate students, along with professional software developers, designers, innovators, health care leaders, educators, and entrepreneurs. Participants organize themselves into teams and over a 27-hour period to build exciting new prototypes and tools for improved health care.

Prospective Basin Evaluation

A team of UL Lafayette geology students proved themselves the world's best at determining where to drill for oil when they won first place in the Imperial Barrel Award Competition — twice. The annual contest awards a top prize of $20,000, which UL Lafayette will use for scholarships and to support future teams.

Our team worked with 30-year-old, 2-D seismic data from Alaska's North Slope, an area where companies want to drill but have not been permitted to do so.

CajunBot

CajunBot II is an autonomous vehicle developed by UL Lafayette computer science and engineering students. One of only 20 such vehicles in the nation to compete in the DARPA Challenge, the goal of CajunBot II was to fulfill the U.S. Defense Department’s plans to utilize convoys of vehicles that do not need human drivers to navigate through desert terrain as well as city streets.

The students and CajunBot were semifinalists in the 2007 competition, and they were featured in the Discovery Science channel series, Robocars in 2008.

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Centers & Laboratories

UL Lafayette student and faculty research is continuously breaking barriers, uncovering discoveries, and making a difference. The Office of the Vice President of Research, Innovation, and Economic Development builds strong, supportive alliances with local, regional, state, and national business, governmental, and industrial leaders that ensure funding, equipment, services and other resources to the University.

Listed below are centers and laboratories located within the Research Park and across the main campus, including within our colleges.